Metacafe Articles

The NXT Stage of This Digital Age

The NXT Stage is a conference for everyone that has a hand in developing video. Whether that video ends up on the web, broadcast for television or for some other purpose  is irrelevant. The two-day conference is set for March 24-25 at the Renaissance Hollywood ...

Online Video Viewing In The UK Grows By 10% YOY

comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released January 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, indicating that the total U.K. online video viewing audience has grown 10 percent during the past year to 29.6 million unique viewers age 15 and older. Google ...

Tools To Track Online Video Marketing, Brands and Social Footprints

You have a brand, you want to know when people are talking about it or using it in some online video...well doesn't everyone? Sure you could focus your tracking on YouTube alone, but wouldn't it be better to expand your tracking even further? Here is ...

List of Video Sharing Web Sites and Destination Sites Like YouTube - Share Your Videos

One of the top viewed pages on ReelSEO is that of a post that I put out with a resource list of video sharing sites. I took the time to update the list, and add a bunch more – more than 300 video sharing websites ...

Reel Success With Video Thumbails In Google Universal Search

UPDATE – So, looks like Google is still playing with letting other sites show thumbnails in the SERPS. They have recently removed these thumbnails from appearing in an organic search. More to come on this as it appears they are being filtered for in google ...

Video Thumbnail Images for Bloggers A "BUG" On Google SERPS - Problem Resolved

This past week I was in Toronto for Christmas and decided to do some Google keyword searches for my site.  What I found was a bit odd in that there was a new thumbnail appearing for my site's result (see below).   I thought that perhaps ...

Software To Upload Videos To Multiple Video Sites

►UPDATED - VIEW OUR MORE RECENT LIST OF TOOLS TO UPLOAD VIDEOS TO MULTIPLE VIDEO WEBSITES. Below I have listed 9 separate sources that you can utilize in order to automate the process of uploading your video to the various video sharing sites and video ...

Tubemogul Real-Time Viewership Analytics and Syndication Options for Brightcove

Today, TubeMogul announced a partnership with Brightcove whereby Brightcove's customers will benefit from new analytics and syndication capabilities provided by TubMogul. Brightcove customers will now be able to activate TubeMogul's InPlay analytics plugin which tracks viewership analytics in real time to provide insight into audience ...

The Brightcove Alliance Launches With More Than 90 Partners

Brightcove Inc. today announced the formation of the Brightcove Alliance, a global ecosystem of leading technology and distribution partners who have integrated with the Brightcove online video platform, as well as solution providers building customer websites and video applications using Brightcove. Through the Brightcove Alliance, ...

TubeMogul InPlay - Flash Player Interaction Metrics and Analytics

Illumenix is an in-depth online video metrics and analytics service. They offer a wide range of services including syndication tracking, player tracking and Flash Video Analytics via their StreamLighter service which integrates into Flash video players. StreamLighter tracks viewing habits as well as video interactions ...

Metacafe Got A Record 9M Uniques Last Month and Lays Off Workers

Acording to TVWeek, Online video destination Metacafe set a traffic record in October with more than 9 million uniques in the US.  That is a rise of more than 30 percent since January of this year and an increase of more than 10% over September's traffic. ...

Video Search "buzz" for Presidential Candidates' Names Closely Matches Vote Results

Many data surveys were publicized during the 2008 election comparing the online popularity of candidates in the social media space, including for video content. But does online buzz match really match up with offline conversions, in this case - voting patterns for presidential candidates? When ...

Measuring Social Media Buzz With Video (how Obama Beat McCain)

What are people saying about you, where are they saying it, how are they saying it (with text, video, images), is it positive or negative, and how should you act on it? A new "Prime Buzz" metric tool, created by the search marketing firm Prime ...

Metacafe Chops Producer Payments

Metacafe has changed the payment conditions of its Producer Rewards program, lowering the the amount paid to video creators by more than half. According to a post on Metacafe's blog today, under the new terms, producers accepted into the program will earn $2 for every ...

20th Century Fox's AUSTRALIA and Metacafe Launch The Thirty-Second Film Contest

Twentieth Century Fox's upcoming romantic adventure AUSTRALIA and Metacafe are joining forces to launch "The Thirty-Second Film Contest" on October 24. The contest challenges aspiring film editors to use materials from the film as well as their own creative "spin" - including visual effects, music, ...